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Jun 28, 2024 · “If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny, or else they’ll kill you.” — Billy Wilder. Billy Wilder was an amazingly versatile cinematic artist of the highest order, and one somehow capable of making entertaining and inspiring works of both comedy and tragedy with equal aplomb.
Jun 17, 2024 · Billy Wilder was the six-time Oscar winner who left behind a series of classically quotable features from Hollywood’s Golden Age, crafting sharp witted and darkly cynical stories that blended...
Jun 18, 2024 · Billy Wilder (born June 22, 1906, Sucha, Austria [now in Poland]—died March 27, 2002, Beverly Hills, California, U.S.) was an Austrian-born American motion-picture scenarist, director, and producer known for films that humorously treat subjects of controversy and offer biting indictments of hypocrisy in American life.
- Michael Barson
3 days ago · Billy Wilder’s 1950 film tells the story of a screenwriter (William Holden), who gets involved with a crazy ex-silent-screen idol — played by real-life former silent-screen idol Gloria...
5 days ago · One of the best noirs ever made, “Double Indemnity,” helped to set the standards for that genre, with director and co-writer Billy Wilder working around the Production Code to create one of ...
Jun 25, 2024 · Every time I watch Billy Wilder’s 1950 black comedy “Sunset Boulevard,” I find myself nearly derailed when the numerous famous quotes from the film appear. As Smash Negativity says, while the film “delves into the depths of obsession and despair, it also sprinkles moments of humor throughout.
Jun 27, 2024 · Wilder’s instincts drove him to a central question: Why go to the lengths of impersonating women? Need money, yes, but how to raise the stakes. To get away from gangsters. Now acting like women musicians is no longer a stroll in the park, but a matter of life and death. With that creative choice, as Wilder said, now “we began to have a ...
